Kalevala is Finland national epic , Elias Lönnrotin compiled and delivered by a poem based on his compilations from 1828 onwards to Finnish-Karelian folk poems . The real one Kalevala first edition ie Old Kalevala appeared in 1835, and now only Kalevala known New Kalevala in 1849.
Kalevala the poems are Kalevala poetry that is, they are done to the Kalevala rhyme measure . Kalevala the poems contained are not direct of poetry singers in a singing form, but Lönnrot modified them, unified and corrected their language and moved some parts of the poems to another place and in a different context than in the originally recorded poems. Three percent of the verses were composed by Lönnrot himself to form coherent plot patterns.
Kalevala in the beginning is a creation myth according to which the world came into being I mess up from the egg. Kalevala describes, among other things Kalevala and Nordic disputes between nations and different protagonists, revenge trips and courtship trips mixed Sammon construction and robbery . Events end Christianity to income.
At the Kalevala has a central symbolic position in Finland. It is Finland's national epic, which has been elevated to one Finnish national culture of cornerstones and marker posts. Kalevala role in Finnish in the history of ideas and the building of the national culture is unmatched internationally. Kalevala has been seen to embody and reflect the national spirit and unity as well as national characteristics. In addition Kalevala has given Finns several different ones images of national heroism . [1] Kalevala has also had a large impact on the arts and sciences in Finland. [2]